Interleaf is very nice. I expect there to be a lot of competition for programs like that.
BILL JOYI think one of the interesting things is that vi is really a mode-based editor.
More Bill Joy Quotes
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I just don’t like to lose what’s in the window.
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Most of the bright people don’t work for you – no matter who you are.
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And once an intelligent robot exists, it is only a small step to a robot species – to an intelligent robot that can make evolved copies of itself.
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Today scientists, technologists, businessmen, engineers don’t have any personal responsibility for the consequences of their actions.
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That lack of programmability is probably what ultimately will doom vi. It can’t extend its domain.
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Operating systems are like underwear – nobody really wants to look at them.
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The standard definition of AI is that which we don’t understand.
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But no, I don’t generally have trouble with spelling mistakes.
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I think editors have to come out of a certain kind of community.
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Just about every computer on the market today runs Unix, except the Mac and nobody cares about it.
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You can drive a car by looking in the rear view mirror as long as nothing is ahead of you. Not enough software professionals are engaged in forward thinking.
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I think one of the interesting things is that vi is really a mode-based editor.
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I was surprised about vi going in, though, I didn’t know it was in System V.
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There are a couple of people in the world who can really program in C or FØRTRAN. They write more code in less time than it takes for other programmers. Most programmers aren’t that good.
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We can’t simply do our science and not worry about the ethical issues.
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A bomb is blown up only once-but one bot can become many, and quickly get out of control.
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I think multiple levels of undo would be wonderful, too.
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You can’t prove anything about a program written in C or FORTRAN. It’s really just Peek and Poke with some syntactic sugar.
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The next step after cheap is free, and after free is disposable.
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Take responsibility for the things you build and invent.
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What’s your personal computer, anyways? Your personal computer should be something that’s always on your person.
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Although humankind inherently “desires to know”, if open access to, and unlimited development of, knowledge henceforth puts us all in clear danger of extinction, then common sense demands that we re-examine our reverence for knowledge.
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The point is that you want to have a system that is responsive.
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You can’t solve a problem with the management of technology with more technology.
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There are always more smart people outside your company than within it.
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We have to encourage the future we want rather than trying to prevent the future we fear.
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